Removing Backup Appliance

You can remove the Nutanix AHV backup appliance from the backup infrastructure if you no longer need it and want to add another appliance to the backup server, or if you want to connect this appliance to another backup server.

Important

After you remove the Nutanix AHV backup appliance:

  • You will not be able to perform VM backup, entire VM restore and VM disk restore operations unless you deploy a new Nutanix AHV backup appliance. However, you will still be able to manage Nutanix AHV VM backups and perform all other restore operation described in section Performing Restore.
  • Records about all jobs that have been ever processed by the Nutanix AHV backup appliance will be deleted from the Veeam Backup & Replication configuration database. Backups created by these jobs are displayed under the Backups > Disk (Orphaned) node in the Home view of the Veeam Backup & Replication console.

To remove the Nutanix AHV backup appliance, do the following:

  1. Open the Backup Infrastructure view.
  2. In the inventory pane, select Backup Proxies.
  3. In the working area, select the Nutanix AHV backup appliance and click Remove Proxy on the ribbon, or right-click the Nutanix AHV backup appliance and select Remove.

Removing Backup Appliance

  1. In the Veeam Backup & Replication window, choose whether you want to permanently remove the VM running as the Nutanix AHV backup appliance.

Tip

If you keep the VM, the configuration settings and records about backup jobs ever processed by the appliance will be retained in the appliance database. This can be helpful if you want to connect the Nutanix AHV backup appliance to another backup server.

Removing Backup Appliance